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I have had such a hard time completing this entry, clearly since its literally been a year now since the race. I had written most of this last year Sept 2016. I’ll start off by quick just saying that this race I was determined to PR, I had trained and was so ready for it. … More End of Summer Half – Race Day, Dealing with Injury

I woke up Monday ready to go for some cross training workouts and opened my app to see what was scheduled for the day and this popped up! So after thinking about it, I thought was probably a better idea to not do the 2 CT days I had planned. It usually does make me … More Week 1, Race Week! – End of Summer Half

This week went really well with training! I was able to get in both days of cross training. Skipped the speed workout, which I planned on skipping because I had started this week late with my runs. This week’s tempo run, I ran inside on the treadmill. I bet I could have ran it outside, it … More Running in New Rochelle, 2 weeks out – End of Summer Half

Less than 2 weeks away from race day! Can you believe it?! Okay, well I am kind of getting pretty excited. This race will be my second half, i’ll be running it completely by myself, I won’t know anyone there, it is completely flat, it will be hot, and I am planning on a PR. … More Nike Running Club, 3 weeks out – End of Summer Half

Training for the End of Summer Half is winding down. 3 weeks now to go! I was unsure about running more than 13 miles during my training, however, I went ahead this week and ran the 15 miler. My training plan for Run Less Run Faster goes up to 15 miles during week 4 and … More First 15 miler, Week 4 – End of Summer Half

Monday in all honesty I was planning on skipping out on my long run. Partially because I had so many miles in from last week already (even though most of it came from cross training) and second because I was being lazy. I did it though and it was fine! I made good time too. And … More Birthday week=rest week. Week 5 – End of Summer Half

MONDAY Long Run: 9.3 miles. Felt good throughout this run, tried out a new route in the Bronx and loved it specifically because there were two play ground along the way with water fountains (and bathrooms if needed) AND one of those water things that squirts water up from the ground for kids (and me) to … More Getting faster! Week 7 – End of Summer Half

One rest day this week! I had to make up for having 3 rest days last week! :p. Lol no thats not the reason why, it just happen to work out like that. I wanted to hit up all the workouts with Mountain Athletics this week. I am really enjoying their workouts, plus I’m meeting … More Training with Mountain Athletics, week 8 – End of Summer Half

This week was full of fun and new and exciting things. I am all about going to workouts and runs in groups to meet new people, try new things, and try some new routes out! We continued with the NYRR Open Run on Saturday. And then hit up Mountain Athletics with North Face on Thursday … More Single Digits! 9 weeks out – End of Summer Half